Mover and Shaker: Walter O’Malley

Mover and Shaker: Walter O’Malley

Mover and Shaker: Walter O’Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball’s Westward Expansion. One of the most influential and controversial team owners in professional sports history, Walter O’Malley (1903–79) is best remembered—and still reviled by many—for moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Yet much of the O’Malley story leading up to the Dodgers’ move is unknown or created from myth, and there is substantially more to the man. When he entered the public eye, the self-constructed family background and early life he presented was gilded. Later his personal story was distorted by some New York sportswriters, who hated him for moving the Dodgers. Bindery and interior pages are in good condition.

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